Fairness, Justice and an Individual Basis for Public Policy
... account for an evolution of partially predisposed preferences expressed as a phenotype nor do they explicitly model how rationality is bounded when making policy decisions. If preferences on matters of governance are influenced in part by heritable traits, then how is the policy process affected by ...
... account for an evolution of partially predisposed preferences expressed as a phenotype nor do they explicitly model how rationality is bounded when making policy decisions. If preferences on matters of governance are influenced in part by heritable traits, then how is the policy process affected by ...
Standardizing Selection Strengths to Study Selection in the Wild: A
... on population- and trait-specific properties (h2, or s A2 and s P2). As we will see further below in this section, an analogous conclusion applies to selection differentials, even though this is less commonly emphasized. The methods developed by Lande and his coauthors (e.g., Lande and Arnold 1983) ...
... on population- and trait-specific properties (h2, or s A2 and s P2). As we will see further below in this section, an analogous conclusion applies to selection differentials, even though this is less commonly emphasized. The methods developed by Lande and his coauthors (e.g., Lande and Arnold 1983) ...
Why Much of What We Teach About Evolution Is
... with the closest thing we have to a true understanding of the natural world, science enables us to live safer, healthier and more productive lives. If science weren't the search for truth, our bridges wouldn't support the weight we put on them, our lives wouldn't be as long as they are, and modern ...
... with the closest thing we have to a true understanding of the natural world, science enables us to live safer, healthier and more productive lives. If science weren't the search for truth, our bridges wouldn't support the weight we put on them, our lives wouldn't be as long as they are, and modern ...
Varieties of Modules - Rasmus Grønfeldt Winther
... This article began as a review of a conference, organized by Gerhard Schlosser, entitled “Modularity in Development and Evolution.” The conference was held at, and sponsored by, the Hanse Wissenschaftskolleg in Delmenhorst, Germany in May, 2000. The article subsequently metamorphosed into a literatu ...
... This article began as a review of a conference, organized by Gerhard Schlosser, entitled “Modularity in Development and Evolution.” The conference was held at, and sponsored by, the Hanse Wissenschaftskolleg in Delmenhorst, Germany in May, 2000. The article subsequently metamorphosed into a literatu ...
Here - jan verpooten
... Eerst en vooral wil ik mijn promotoren bedanken, Andreas De Block, Siegfried Dewitte, Marcel Eens en Mark Nelissen. Andreas, Ik heb veel aan je te danken. Je hebt me geholpen met het vinden van ondersteuning voor mijn onderzoek, eerst bij het Konrad Lorenz Instituut en vervolgens via het FWOProject ...
... Eerst en vooral wil ik mijn promotoren bedanken, Andreas De Block, Siegfried Dewitte, Marcel Eens en Mark Nelissen. Andreas, Ik heb veel aan je te danken. Je hebt me geholpen met het vinden van ondersteuning voor mijn onderzoek, eerst bij het Konrad Lorenz Instituut en vervolgens via het FWOProject ...
Homicide adaptations
... direct competition between two individuals. The person who is killed can no longer compete with his killer. A dead competitor can no longer directly influence the environment or social context that he shared with his killer. The distinct outcomes of homicide would have created equally unique selectio ...
... direct competition between two individuals. The person who is killed can no longer compete with his killer. A dead competitor can no longer directly influence the environment or social context that he shared with his killer. The distinct outcomes of homicide would have created equally unique selectio ...
Missing the Revolution: Darwinism for Social
... of shifting humankind from our privileged position in the land of the non-animals to the natural world, the work of applying to ourselves the Darwinian framework that has been so astoundingly successful when applied to every other species, is well under way. This volume is an invitation to social-cu ...
... of shifting humankind from our privileged position in the land of the non-animals to the natural world, the work of applying to ourselves the Darwinian framework that has been so astoundingly successful when applied to every other species, is well under way. This volume is an invitation to social-cu ...
john hewitt - University of Leeds
... Humans, like other animals, use incongruity selection as a learning mechanism; for example, we have motion detectors that focus our attention on moving objects. Also, like other animals and especially while children, we are curious, want to understand everything and minutely examine everything we do ...
... Humans, like other animals, use incongruity selection as a learning mechanism; for example, we have motion detectors that focus our attention on moving objects. Also, like other animals and especially while children, we are curious, want to understand everything and minutely examine everything we do ...
- Philsci-Archive
... The first is the confused but enduring idea that the Baldwin effect allows ‘mind’ to ‘direct’ evolution and thus saves us from the barren Darwinian vision of a world ruled by chance and necessity. The second motive is less well known and far more interesting. Ever since Weismann, biologists interest ...
... The first is the confused but enduring idea that the Baldwin effect allows ‘mind’ to ‘direct’ evolution and thus saves us from the barren Darwinian vision of a world ruled by chance and necessity. The second motive is less well known and far more interesting. Ever since Weismann, biologists interest ...
The Monopolistic Competitor:
... e. create a new middle strategy that’s in the middle of your current strategies. GT-6) Games can be made more complicated by a. adding more players than two b. adding more options from which a player can choose c. having more than a single round of play d. having some uncertainty of outcomes e. all ...
... e. create a new middle strategy that’s in the middle of your current strategies. GT-6) Games can be made more complicated by a. adding more players than two b. adding more options from which a player can choose c. having more than a single round of play d. having some uncertainty of outcomes e. all ...
Is It Evolution Yet?
... evolutionary or behavioral ecology, explains cultural and behavioral change as forms of phenotypic adaptation to varying social and ecological conditions, using the assumption that natural selection has designed organisms to respond to local conditions in fitness-enhancing ways. We argue that the pr ...
... evolutionary or behavioral ecology, explains cultural and behavioral change as forms of phenotypic adaptation to varying social and ecological conditions, using the assumption that natural selection has designed organisms to respond to local conditions in fitness-enhancing ways. We argue that the pr ...
Boone James L. Is It Evolution Yet
... evolutionary or behavioral ecology, explains cultural and behavioral change as forms of phenotypic adaptation to varying social and ecological conditions, using the assumption that natural selection has designed organisms to respond to local conditions in fitness-enhancing ways. We argue that the pr ...
... evolutionary or behavioral ecology, explains cultural and behavioral change as forms of phenotypic adaptation to varying social and ecological conditions, using the assumption that natural selection has designed organisms to respond to local conditions in fitness-enhancing ways. We argue that the pr ...
Is It Evolution Yet? A Critique of Evolutionary Archaeology
... evolutionary or behavioral ecology, explains cultural and behavioral change as forms of phenotypic adaptation to varying social and ecological conditions, using the assumption that natural selection has designed organisms to respond to local conditions in fitness-enhancing ways. We argue that the pr ...
... evolutionary or behavioral ecology, explains cultural and behavioral change as forms of phenotypic adaptation to varying social and ecological conditions, using the assumption that natural selection has designed organisms to respond to local conditions in fitness-enhancing ways. We argue that the pr ...
On the Application of Darwinism to Economics
... approach, for replicator, interactor, lineage. In economics, Hodgson and Knudsen have advocated this version of generalized Darwinism in their most recent work (Hodgson and Knudsen 2004, 2006a,b). A third possible way of generalizing Darwinism is general selection theory (Price 1995). Knudsen has be ...
... approach, for replicator, interactor, lineage. In economics, Hodgson and Knudsen have advocated this version of generalized Darwinism in their most recent work (Hodgson and Knudsen 2004, 2006a,b). A third possible way of generalizing Darwinism is general selection theory (Price 1995). Knudsen has be ...
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... The car of the victim, whom I’ll call Vic, was slightly scraped. Tony didn’t want to tell his insurance company. The next morning, Tony and I went with Vic to visit some body shops. The upshot was that the repair would cost $80. Tony and I had lunch with a bottle of wine, and thought over the situat ...
... The car of the victim, whom I’ll call Vic, was slightly scraped. Tony didn’t want to tell his insurance company. The next morning, Tony and I went with Vic to visit some body shops. The upshot was that the repair would cost $80. Tony and I had lunch with a bottle of wine, and thought over the situat ...